Bush's war in Iraq is power run amok

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published
1:00 am EDT, Tuesday, May 25, 2004

It is every American's patriotic responsibility to effect change within the government when it is clear that incompetence and ineptness are rampant, as is the case of the Bush administration. This is arguably the most dangerous administration in the history of America. Once, this nation was admired, loved and respected by most of the world. Now it is hated and feared and has become a force that will stop at nothing to advance the interests of those holding political or corporate power positions. Bush's personal agenda of establishing a democracy in Iraq at the point of a gun has nothing to do with freedom, terrorism or the will of the Iraqi people. It is purely a power move to anoint his place in history. It is power run amok. As commander in chief, Bush is personally responsible for every American and Iraqi casualty of his war - as are Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, the architects of this ugly mess. It was perpetrated through blatant lies and incredible misinformation aimed at the gullibility and fears of nonthinking Americans and a Congress that was still experiencing Sept. 11 aftershock. This was arrogant manipulation at its finest. Further, the scary religious right-thinking of Bush and Ashcroft has worked hard to diminish American civil liberties through segments of the Patriot Act, as well as an attempt to enact a marital constitutional amendment that appears to be worded straight from passages from the Bible. Let's get religion out of the White House before these evangelistic wannabes attempt to lead a joint session of Congress in a refrain from "Onward Christian Soldiers." It is critical that we move on to a leadership change in America.